Ifrah, Georges.
[Histoire universelle des chiffres (1994). 1, Aventure des chiffres. Inglés]
The universal history of numbers : from prehistory to the invention of the computer / Georges Ifrah ; translated from the French by David Bellos ... [et al.].
— New York : Wiley, 2000- xxii, 633 p. : il., mapas ; 22 x 25 cm.
Traducción de: Histoire universelle des chiffres. Paris : R. Laffont, c1994.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 601-615) e índice.
Contenido: 1. Explaining the origins: ethnological and psychological approaches to the sources of numbers — 2. Base numbers and the birth of number-systems — 3. The earliest calculating machine — -the hand — 4. How Cro-Magnon man counted — 5. Tally sticks: accounting for beginners — 6. Numbers on strings — 7. Number, value and money — 8. Numbers of Sumer — 9. The enigma of the sexagesimal base — 10. The development of written numerals in Elam and Mesopotamia — 11. The decipherment of a five-thousand-year-old system — 12. How the Sumerians did their sums — 13. Mesopotamian numbering after the eclipse of Sumer — 14. The numbers of Ancient Egypt — 15. Counting in the times of the Cretan and Hittite kings — 16. Greek and Roman numerals — 17. Letters and numbers — 18. The invention of alphabetic numerals — 19. Other alphabetic number systems — 20. Magic, mysticism, divination, and other secrets — 21. The numbers of Chinese civilisation — 22. The amazing achievements of the Maya — 23. The final stage of numerical notation — 24, Part I. Indian civilisation: the cradle of modern numerals — 24, Part II. Dictionary of the numeral symbols of Indian civilisation — 25. Indian numerals and calculation in the Islamic world — 26. The slow progress of Indo-Arabic numerals in Western Europe — 27. Beyond perfection.
ISBN 0471393401 (pbk). — ISBN 0471375683
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